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THE BOOK OF THE PROPHET<br/>
<span class=large>ISAIAH</span>
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CHAPTER 36
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Assyrians war against Judah and blaspheme the Lord.
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Now</span> it came to pass in the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/36/1a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 18: 13 (11-37).">fourteenth</a> year of king Hezekiah, <i>that</i> Sennacherib king of <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/36/1b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Scattering of.">Assyria</a> came up against all the defenced cities of Judah, and took them.
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And the king of Assyria sent <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/36/2a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB the Assyrian chief of the officers.">Rabshakeh</a> from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army.  And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field.
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Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder.
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&#182; And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence <i>is</i> this wherein thou trustest?
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I say, <i>sayest thou,</i> (but <i>they are but</i> vain words) <i>I have </i>counsel and strength for war: now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?
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Lo, thou trustest in the staff of this broken <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/36/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="2 Kgs. 18: 21; Ezek. 29: 6 (6-16).">reed</a>, on <sup>b</sup><a href="isa/36/6b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Trust Not in the Arm of Flesh.">Egypt</a>; whereon if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so <i>is</i> Pharaoh king of Egypt to all that trust in him.
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But if thou say to me, We trust in the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> our God: <i>is it</i> not he, whose <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/36/7a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE All outlying shrines had been eliminated, in favor of one temple, in Jerusalem.">high</a> places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?
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Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.
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How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?
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And am I now come up without the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> against this land to destroy it?  the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> said unto me, Go up against this land, and destroy it.
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&#182; Then said Eliakim and Shebna and Joah unto Rabshakeh, Speak, I pray thee, unto thy servants in the <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/36/11a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB Aramaic.">Syrian</a> language; for we understand <i>it:</i> and speak not to us in the Jews’ language, in the ears of the people that <i>are</i> on the wall.
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&#182; But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master and to thee to speak these words?  <i>hath he</i> not <i>sent me</i> to the men that sit upon the wall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
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Then Rabshakeh stood, and cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language, and said, Hear ye the words of the great king, the king of Assyria.
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Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.
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Neither let Hezekiah make you trust in the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, saying, The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will surely deliver us: this city shall not be delivered into the hand of the king of Assyria.
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Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make <i>an agreement</i> with me <i>by</i> a present, and come out to me: and eat ye every one of his vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his own cistern;
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Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.
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<i>Beware</i> lest Hezekiah persuade you, saying, The <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> will deliver us.  Hath any of the gods of the nations delivered his land out of the hand of the king of Assyria?
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Where <i>are</i> the gods of Hamath and Arphad?  where <i>are</i> the gods of Sepharvaim?  and have they delivered <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/36/19a" mark="a" type="D" title="IE the capital of northern Israel (ten tribes), which had already been captured.">Samaria</a> out of my hand?
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Who <i>are they</i> among all the gods of these lands, that have delivered their land out of my hand, that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?
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But they <sup>a</sup><a href="isa/36/21a" mark="a" type="D" title="OR were silent.">held</a> their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.
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&#182; Then came Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, that <i>was</i> over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, to Hezekiah with <i>their</i> clothes rent, and told him the words of Rabshakeh.
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